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World of Invention on Steven P. Jobs
Steven Jobs is best known as the co-developer with Steven Wozniak of the first widely-popular desktop computer, the Apple II in the late 1970s, and as co-founder of the Apple Computer Corporation. Jobs was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and became interested in computers while in junior high school. He met electronic-expert Wozniak in 1971, and the two of them began their partnership by manufacturing "blue boxes," illegal electronic devices for making long-distance telephone calls without paying for them. After spending a period in India living in a commune, Jobs again met Wozniak. The personal computer (PC) was just being developed in the mid-1970s and Wozniak had designed one, but he was unable to interest a manufacturer. Jobs, however, immediately saw its marketing possibilities. Jobs gave it the friendly name of Apple, aiming the machine at home users rather than computer enthusiasts, such as those in...
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